Stereotypes

This week in class we watched a movie called A Bronx Tale. It was about a boy named collodro who witnessed a murder by the neighborhoods mobster, Sunny. Collodro was asked About the murder and  denied that sunny commited the crime because a rat in their neighborhood was the lowest you could be. Sunny soon befriended him and gave him the nickname C. Throughout the entire movie there was a racism issue. People were separated by neighborhoods, blacks on one side Italians on another. Until one day Collodr rides with his father on one of his bus routes. There's a black girl who he finds attractive and after their first encounter on the bus he sees her at school and asks her out. The movie is filled with stereotypes, like when collodro meets Jane for the first time he thinks she is going to have an exotic name but in reality he's the one with the weird name, not her. Stereotypes like these still happen today  in the world we live in. Whenever I go to the city and drive through a prodominatly black area I get nervous because my whole life I've grown up around the ideas of stereotyping bad neighborhoods.